Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
LABOR NOTES.

get Pitsburgers to take hold Of a
scheme to build steamboats, that will
run a mile a minute.
1t is alleged that Cincinnati furniture
manufacturers have formed a combi-
nation to pay their engineers no more
than 81 a day.
The hardware manufacturers of the
New England states have been expend-
ing their production very cautiously,
and are aot threatened with serious
competition.
A Massachusetts shovel mandatory
has been removed to Terre Haute,
Indiana, where it will turn out $50
dozen shovels per day.
A F%Eenchman has been found who
proposes the building Of a bridge across
the Dover channel. He suggests a
cantalever.
The sewing machine manufacturers
are running their works nearly full,
and are finding profitable markets in
the far west.
During the past few weeks the man.
u%facturers of jewelry were favored
with an increased amount of orders for
the holidays.
English car-builders are having a
great demand for iron and steel cars
for H~indoostan, where the citrate is
against wood.
The principal proprietor nThe Rome,
On. " locomotive work was once a
day hand in Colts pistol factory at
$3.50 per day.
England recognises that the custom
of the German manufacturers working
on Sunday | putting it to a disadvant-
age.
So t@i this month the strikers num-
ber..',6S5; nearly one-half of these
wire brass workers in New York and
fBrooklyn.
A Pittsburg frn has a contract for
several thousand tons CT steel to 90 in
to the hulls of tSo government cruisers.
Large importations of specialties
and novelties will make She holiday
stationery display especially attractive.
The producers of petroleum are more
seriously inclined to restrict produc-
lion now than they have been for
years.
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
company is building iron steamers in
order TO increase its coal traffic.
a Virginia zinc mine company is
working al eight-foot zinc vein of I'M
known depth at a profit of $12 per ton.
During the past twelve months s.
$50, 691 barrels of flour were shipped
from Minneapolis by seven railroads.
A syndicate of capitalists will erect
a large blast furnace at Duluth under
the management of a Philadelphia.
There is enough coke and coal in the
Connellsville region to supply the
whole country for fifty years.
The manufacturing s~tationers
throughout the country are quite busy
on holiday and win.er work.
A Chattanooga paint company is
making paint that contains 55 per cent.
of metallic iron.
Great preparations are being made
at the Watervleit arsenal to manufac-
ture field guns.
One Of the latest industries organ
lied in st. Louis is a toy manufactur-
ing concern.
The Cumberland, (Md.) rolling mill
has been generally o~verhauled and
improved.
A steamship that will accommodate
200 people is to be built at San Fran
cisco.
Excellent fire clay is being found in
the western part of Colorado.
A large number of Italians are pre-
pairing to return home this fall.
A Springfield (Ill.) roller mill has
shut down for want of coal.
Three blast furnaces will be built at
Florence, Alabama.
A new wire-rod mill is to be built at
Trenton.
An English mechanic has invited a
weldless boiler ring plate for triple
engine boilers, by which a far greater
pressure can be sustained than in
welded boilers. English engineers are
greatly pleased at what these new
boilers can do.
The interchanging of machinery
parts, which is so commo in all Amer.
lcan workshops, was suggested and in.
troduced by a man named Root, who
worked in Colts pistol factory and who
was made superintendent at a salary OF
$4,000 a year.
philaaa1nhia arohitaorc ara freorant.